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About Maria & North River Coaching

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Maria Candler has more than twenty-five years of experience coaching and leading teams in complex business environments.  As a former CEO, she understands firsthand the demands placed on leaders and their teams in a rapidly changing world.

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The Enneagram found its way into Maria's organization nearly two decades ago and quickly became a transformative experience for the management team and for her personally. 

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Driven by the undeniable results of this model/approach to self and social awareness and her passion for personal and professional development, Maria became a certified Enneagram Coach in 2017 and has since been harnessing the power of the system in her work with both individuals and groups.  Using the Enneagram in combination with her skills as an ICF-certified coach has proved to be highly effective in helping individuals from all backgrounds make transformative and sustainable changes.

 

Maria's own journey towards living a fuller, more whole life started on the North River...

"The North River is a special place. It's the place where I learned to sit still after a long, fast-paced, hard-charging career.  It's the place where I started to understand my own complex trauma and its impact on my life.  

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Within that stillness and awareness, I began to unravel the patterns that led to workism, perfectionism, burnout, and to be blunt, a disconnection from the joys of life. 

 

Learning to be still helped me hear and trust the inner voice that ultimately led me to North River Coaching, an opportunity to share all the hard lessons learned. 

Now in my second act, I am combining my leadership experiences, the gifts of the Enneagram and my ICF accredited trauma-informed coaching certification to help clients from all backgrounds achieve their goals and live a more harmonious life.​

 

The North River itself has become a metaphorical reminder to "keep flowing and floating with life instead of paddling hard upstream."

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In Maria's spare time she loves spending time with her husband, adult children and fur babies, traveling, kayaking, having deep talks with friends, reading, writing and providing support for incarcerated women in recovery programs.

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Areas of Expertise include

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  • Executive Development

  • Relationships/Partnerships

  • Life Transitions

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  • Emerging Leaders

  • Post Traumatic Growth

  • Addiction Recovery

The Enneagram is an integrated map of personality that not only helps us to identify our blind spots and patterned behavior but the underlying motivations that drive our way of thinking, feeling and acting.  It is an impactful tool for building self awareness, the key to personal development.  Most clients find that understanding their type patterns deepens the effectiveness of the coaching process. 

 

Want to learn more?  Visit The Narrative Enneagram

or book a free consultation

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